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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1897
Page
4
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Western Senators urge President McKinley to repeal Cleve land orders setting large forest lands aside as public reservations. They warn floods threaten vast populations as watershed deforestation drives devastation. The reservations follow guidance from a scientific commission led by Professor C S Sargent and should be maintained.
The Republican House resists a Democratic bid to strike duties on trust controlled articles. A Iowa Republican calls the amendment naive and counterproductive while Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman once favored attaching such provisions. Dingley and allies brand the move demagoguery as they control tariff changes.
William T. Adams, known as Oliver Optic, cherished for guiding generations of readers with the Boat Club and Take Shore tales. The longtime juvenile author is praised for producing moral heroes and influencing American youth across nearly five decades.
A Massachusetts Senate discussion centers on a bill allowing a railroad to purchase the stock of other system railroads with consent of the railroad commissioners. The measure aims to preserve large integrated systems, reduce fixed charges, and prevent sectional divisions during business panics, citing Boston and Maine as a pivotal example.
City Hospital trustees push a nurses home as a public benefit with council debate ongoing over opposition from some Common Council members. The measure emphasizes community health housing for staff and hospital operations.
A long commentary defends a land purchase for a hospital site, denying graft or self interest by trustees, while noting the city may pay a higher price due to location. The piece also covers local politics, social tidbits, and oblique notes on public figures and cultural events.
The Observant Citizen Saturday and Sunday drew wheelmen to the Fens where ladies in 1897 bicycling dress appeared less feminine than before. A tandem pair wore identical blue outfits yet had contrasting facial hair and hair at the back of the head. A friend notes low shoes and golf stockings will replace high boots for wheelwomen, while another compares golf stockings to charity. H. A. Grant, Boston Theatre head usher, wore a troubled smile after a matinee and lobby interactions.
In a dim December room Rose Gray frets over Jack Reynolds in New York. Lily Hynes announces her engagement to Jack, igniting Rose's jealousy and revealing a cruel temptation to accept Mr Warren’s wealth.
The Post grants a menu prize of % to Mrs E Church of 62 Forest Street Roxbury. Her menu appeared in the Post on Monday March 22.
A household menu lists breakfast and dinner items including oranges, broiled chicken, baked potatoes, soup, roast beef, scalloped tomatoes, and desserts. It provides detailed recipes for potato croquettes, scalloped tomatoes, cafe mousse, and sponge cake with measurements and steps. WMILY J. Adams in Durham street Boston is credited.
The article surveys Easter season wheelwear noting improvements in 1897 cycling dress. It describes bloomers in black pongee or black cambric as lighter options and reports that leg gings of dress material are not worn. It frames the look as essential for a well presented rider and hints at budget considerations.
A letter from Elmira Reformatory Superintendent Brockway to the Massachusetts Prison Association endorses transferring county prisons to the State to better classify minor offenders. General Brinkerhoff of Ohio also supports state control as essential for prison reform and praises Massachusetts for leading in criminal justice improvements.
The guide advises knee high high heels in tan with brown gowns and black for other colors. It favors mixed brown tweed two piece suits with a skirt that wears out faster than the jacket. It recommends gored ankle length skirts and single breasted jackets in two styles, plus an Alpine hat trimmed with quills.
A marble bust of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, carved in Paris in 186 by Miss Susan Durant, long owned by Lord Seymour Fitzgerald as Bombay governor, was unveiled at New York University in Washington Square. Dr Wallace Wood bought it recently from Fitzgerald and transported it to the United States. Mrs Stowe’s daughter Mrs H B Stowe of Hartford recalls attending sittings and praises the likeness of her mother at 46.
New York report details Bradley Martin and wife boarding the Campania at Clarkson Street with a retinue of nearly twenty servants. They plan an early season at Balmacan in Scotland, a London stay for the Jubilee procession, and a June return to England. Bradley Martin Jr. to join after Harvard exams.
A morgue owner asks what sign to post. a friend jokes remains to be seen. A traveller asks the name of a dried up God forsaken village as the train stops at a bleak railway station. A dejected citizen answers in bleak terms letting it go at that.
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